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Description:

mkdocsgitcommittersplugin2 2.3.0

mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2
MkDocs plugin for displaying a list of committers associated with a file in
mkdocs. The plugin uses GitHub or GitLab API to fetch the list of contributors
for each page.
🥳 NEW! Works with GitLab too!
For ease of use, this plugin is integrated in the material for
mkdocs theme by Martin
Donath. See Mkdocs material
documentation.
Other MkDocs plugins that use information to fetch authors:

mkdocs-git-authors-plugin for displaying user names a number of lines contributed (uses local Git information)
mkdocs-git-committers-plugin display contributors for a page (uses local Git information, completed with REST GitHub API v3)

Setup
Install the plugin using pip:
pip install mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2
Activate the plugin in mkdocs.yml:
For a repository hosted on GitHub:
plugins:
- git-committers:
repository: organization/repository

For a repository hosted on GitLab:
plugins:
- git-committers:
gitlab_repository: 12345678
token: !ENV ["GH_TOKEN"]

For a repository hosted on GitLab, you need to provide a token so that the
plugin can access the GitLab API. If the token is not set in mkdocs.yml it
will be read from the MKDOCS_GIT_COMMITTERS_APIKEY environment variable.
For a repository hosted on GitHub, you can provide a token to increase the rate
limit and go beyond the default 60 requests per hour per IP address. The plugin
will make one request per mkdocs document. The token does not need any scope:
uncheck everything when creating the GitHub Token at
github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new,
unless you access private repositories.
Config

enabled - Disables plugin if set to False for e.g. local builds (default: True)

repository - For GitHub, the name of the repository, e.g.
'ojacques/mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2'

gitlab_repository - For GitLab, the project ID, e.g. '12345678'

branch - The name of the branch to get contributors from. Example: 'master'
(default)

token - A GitHub or GitLab personal access token for REST API calls.

For GitHub, token does not need any scope: uncheck everything when creating
the GitHub Token at
github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new,
unless you access private repositories.
For GitLab, a
project access token
scoped to read_api is expected to work. That way, the token is limited to
the project and has access to read the repository. You could use a personal
access token at
gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens,
but it will grant access to more repositories than you want.

enterprise_hostname - For GitHub enterprise: the GitHub enterprise hostname.

gitlab_hostname - For GitLab: the GitLab hostname if different from
gitlab.com (self-hosted).

api_version - For GitHub and GitLab self-hosted, the API version part that needs to be appended to the URL.
Defaults to v4 for GitLab, and nothing for GitHub Enterprise (you may need v3).

docs_path - the path to the documentation folder. Defaults to docs.

cache_dir - The path which holds the authors cache file to speed up
documentation builds. Defaults to .cache/plugin/git-committers/. The cache
file is named page-authors.json.

exclude - Specify a list of page source paths (one per line) that should not
have author(s) or last commit date included (excluded from processing by this
plugin). Default is empty. Examples:
# mkdocs.yml
plugins:
- git-committers:
repository: organization/repository
exclude:
- README.md
- subfolder/page.md
- another_page.md
- all_files_inside_folder/*
- folder_and_subfolders/**

History
This is a fork from the original mkdocs-git-committers-plugin by @byrnereese.
I had to create this fork so that it could be uploaded and distributed through PyPi. The package has been renamed to mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2.
This "v2" differs from the original by:

Fetch contributors directly from GitHub
Eliminate the need to match git commit logs with entries in GitHub, and thus GitHub API calls
No more risk of matching the incorrect contributor as the information comes directly from GitHub
last_commit_date is now populated with local git info
Use a cache file to speed up following builds: authors are fetched from GitHub for a page only if that page has changed since the last build

All of the above improves accuracy and performances.
Note: the plugin configuration in mkdocs.yml still uses the original git-committers sections.
Limitations

Getting the contributors relies on what is available on GitHub or GitLab.
For now, Git submodule is not supported and will report no contributors.
GitLab users may not be properly identified. See issue #50

Usage
You have 2 options to use this plugin:

Use Mkdocs material theme (see Mkdocs material
documentation).
Use the plugin directly in your template. See below.

Display Last Commit
In addition to displaying a list of committers for a file, you can also access
the last commit date for a page if you want to display the date the file was
last updated.
Template Code for last commit
<ul class="metadata page-metadata" data-bi-name="page info" lang="en-us" dir="ltr">
<li class="last-updated-holder displayDate loading">
<span class="last-updated-text">Last updated:</span>
<time role="presentation" datetime="2018-10-25T00:00:00.000Z" data-article-date-source="ms.date">{% if last_commit_date %}{{ last_commit_date }}{% endif %}</time>
</li>
</ul>

Display List of Committers
Avatar
The avatar of the contributors is provided by GitHub. It uses maximal resolution.
Template Code for avatars
{% block footer %}
<ul class="metadata page-metadata" data-bi-name="page info" lang="en-us" dir="ltr">
<li class="contributors-holder">
<span class="contributors-text">Contributors</span>
<ul class="contributors" data-bi-name="contributors">
{%- for user in committers -%}
<li><a href="{{ user.url }}" title="{{ user.name }}" data-bi-name="contributorprofile" target="_blank"><img src="{{ user.avatar }}" alt="{{ user.name }}"></a></li>
{%- endfor -%}
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
{% endblock %}

CSS
.metadata{
list-style:none;
padding:0;
margin:0;
margin-bottom: 15px;
color: #999;
font-size:0.85em;
}
.metadata.page-metadata .contributors-text{
margin-right:5px
}
body[dir=rtl] .metadata.page-metadata .contributors-text{
margin-right:0;
margin-left:5px
}
.page-metadata .contributors{
display:inline-block;
list-style:none;
margin:0!important;
padding:0!important
}
.page-metadata .contributors li{
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
margin:0;
padding:0
}

Javascript
$( '.contributors img[data-src]' ).each( function() {
src = $(this).attr("data-src");
$(this).attr('src',src);
});

More information about templates here.
More information about blocks here.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the following contributors:

Byrne Reese - original author, maintainer
Nathan Hernandez
Chris Northwood
Martin Donath
PTKay
Guts
Fir121
dstockhammer
thor
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